It's pronounced Vee-Two Last summer, Destructoid promoted a blog by the magnificent OverlordZetta that asked what the deal was with Compile Heart. The question was a rhetorical one.

Megadimension Neptunia VII does things pretty much by the book, as far as the Neptunia series goes: a zany meme-filled and self-referential plot, attractive personified videogame consoles as 'goddesses,' story-dungeon-story pattern, and a turn-based battle system that will leave fans in a familiar...

VII is the best Neptunia game to date. Everything has been drastically improved from the previous installments. Story, music, dialog, and so on. The gameplay is very solid and adds in a couple new features such as Parts Break and formation skills.

The Neptunia franchise is already approaching its five-year anniversary in North America. It was only a matter of time before Idea Factory and Compile Heart shifted the niche RPG series to the next generation of consoles, following its considerable success on previous-gen Sony hardware.

It's easy for a long-running series to become lazy and self-perpetuating. Fans expect similar plots, enemies and settings, so the urge to present a familiar product can be tough to fight, especially when there's no way of predicting whether taking risks will delight or alienate existing customers,...

Your sidekick is a Seaman

Getting 1-shotted by every monster in a dungeon that I had no idea I was too low-level for

There are a lot of RPG's in store for the year 2016, and getting ahead of the pack in terms of release date is none other than Megadimension Neptunia VII . Despite the misleading title, it's not the seventh game in the main series.

Like a Kangaroo!

Nice visual improvements; Combat is still fun; Lots of content

Recycled content; Inconsistent voice acting

Normally, when one thinks of an updated title - especially with RPGs - the expectation is for it to arrive several years later on a platform that differs from the one it originally debuted on.